From: "Smarasderagd" <smarry@vex.net>
To: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: building rc on QNX4
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:15:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000508151502.23583.qmail@pantransit.reptiles.org> (raw)
Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> writes:
> Unfortunately the example doesn't work in several very useful
>situations: it will badly flub the common scripting idiom of
>'generate stuff | {while (read foo) {....}}', never processing
>most of the actual output.
My usual way through this situation has been to recode it as
for (i in `{generate stuff}) {...}
replacing ` with ``($nl) if I really want lines and not tokens. If the
input is big enough to cause problems for rc, I switch to awk, sed, or
whatever. Complicated interactive scripts I usually write in awk/gawk.
This won't work to interact with a network connection, such as the news
and FTP snarfing scripts I use (see below.)
> In order to make this work, you need to find a utility that is
>guaranteed to read no more than the first line of standard input.
>Most utilities (eg awk) will happily eat an entire large buffer
>worth of standard input and then give you the first line back.
>This is unfortunate if you wanted to read the rest of the buffer's
>worth of input later.
I wrote a tiny C program "line" that reads a character at a time to ensure
that further input doesn't get eaten, and another one "spew" to handle
the "." on a line by itself ending a block of output protocol used by
news, mail, and others. "line" wouldn't be necessary if news didn't
respond to article requests etc. with a response code line immediately
followed by the output. You may notice that SMTP/NNTP don't put the
server in this situation...
next reply other threads:[~2000-05-08 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-08 15:15 Smarasderagd [this message]
2000-05-09 8:22 ` Carlo Strozzi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-09 4:34 Smarasderagd
2000-05-11 12:26 ` Gert-Jan Vons
2000-05-08 15:23 Sam Roberts
2000-05-09 8:25 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-08 10:19 Bengt Kleberg
2000-05-06 21:47 Byron Rakitzis
2000-05-04 13:46 Sam Roberts
2000-05-04 8:45 Byron Rakitzis
2000-05-06 10:28 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-07 17:46 ` Paul Haahr
2000-05-08 8:01 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-06 16:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
[not found] <sroberts@uniserve.com>
2000-04-26 15:02 ` Sam Roberts
2000-04-27 16:56 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-04-27 20:41 ` Sam Roberts
2000-04-27 17:39 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-02 14:41 ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-04 15:18 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-08 8:29 ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-08 8:58 ` Chris Siebenmann
2000-05-08 9:15 ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-08 23:25 ` Stephen Tell
2000-05-08 11:50 ` David Luyer
2000-05-08 13:28 ` Carlo Strozzi
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